Apparatus for pasting photographs on cards



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Patented NOV. Z9,- 1864.,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES S.-LUCAS, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK.

APPARATUS FOR PASTING PHOTOGRAPHS ON CARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 45,253, dated November 29, 1864.

To'all "whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. LUCAS, of the city of Poughkeepsie, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Apparatus for Pasting Photographs on Cards, the construction and operation of which -I have described in the following specification and illustrated in its accompanying drawings, wit-h sufiicient clearness to enable competent and skillful workmen, in the art to which it pertains or is most nearly allied, to make and use my invention.

The nature of my invention consists in theapplioation of paste by means of a paste-box and rolls to the back of a photograph picture, while the same is secured on a movable bed prepared for its reception in such a'man'ner that when sutficient paste is left thereon, the bed may be moved under a platen, the under side otwhich is kept constantly supplied with a card from a cardreceiver or box by means of a slide attached to the movable bed on which the photograph is placed. Upon pressing down on the handle of the platen a card is forced down on the pasted picture and made to adhere by the pressure, whenthe card is removed by withdrawing the movable bed to its former position.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is aside view of the apparatus. Fig. II is a cross-section of paste-box'and rollers. Fig. III is a transverse view of platen. Fig. IV is a side view of same. Figs. V and VI is a perspective View of bed; Fig. VII, plan view of the main bed of apparatus.-

' A is the main bed, B, the slides to guide the bed, 860-; G, the card-receiver; D, a door for the insertion of the cards; E, slide for shoving the cards under the platen F; G, dogs for holding the cards on the under side of platen while up; H, stop-piece for releasin g the dogs G from the card when the platen F is pushed down; I, spring for keeping platen up; K, paste-box; L, frame for holding rolls M 5 N, spring for keeping frame L up when not in use; 0,, movable bed for holdiug photographs; P, fingers for holding photograph on bed and operated by means of stop-pieces Q and X. .R is the handle for operating the bed 0.

In order to use my apparatus, fill the pastecnp with paste. The card-receiver is then filled or may be filled before with the cards S. (Shown in broken hole in side of card-receiver in Fig. I.) The handle R is then pulled out to the front end of the frame. By the handle R, and by that operation, the plate T on the slide E forces the bottom card in the receiver out-under the platen F, where it is held by the dogs G, The photograph is nowplaced with its face nndermost on the movable bed 0. The handle R is then pushed back, which removes the end of the fingers P from the stop-block Q, and holds the photograph firmly, while the bed 0 is brought under the paste roll M. When the frame L is pressed down, bring the roll M in connection with the photograph, when a backward and forward motion of the bed 0, given by means of the handle R, gives motion to this roll M, and distributes the paste over the surface of the photograph. As soon as the picture is pasted sufficiently the pressure on L is released and the frame is raised out of the way by the spring N. The handle It is again pushed back until the bed 0 comes directly under the platen F, when the action of the stoppiece X releases the finger P from the picture. The handle \V of the platen F is then pushed down, which forces the card on the pasted picture, (and at the same time the stop-pieces H release the card from the dogs G, as shown in Fig. III, in red ink,) and is madeto adhere by the pressure. The pressure being removed from W, the spring I forces up the platen, and on pulling out the handle R again the fingers P then grasp again the picture and card, and bring them forward to the front 01 the bed A, when they are removed. At the same time, when the handle R is pulled out, the plate T again supplies the platen with another card.

The bed 0 and slide E are connected to each other by a sliding joint, in order to allow the bed 0 to have a certain forward and backward mot-ion under the paster without moving.

the slide E.

The disadvantage of pasting them, as heretol'ore, by hand, is they soiling of the cards b the paste and smutting ofl the hands.

What I claim, and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. The combination and arrangement of the Q end X,or their equivalents, for thepurposes platen F, handle W, spring I, fingers or dogs heretotoredescribed and set forth.

' G, and stop-pieces H, or their equivalent, for 4. Theslide-joint Z, for connecting the bed the purpose heretofore set forth and described. 0 and slide E, for the purpose heretofore set 2. The combination and arrangement of the forth and described.

paste-box K, frame L, rollers M, and springs N, or their equivalents, for the purposes here- CHAS LUCAS tofore set forth and described. Witnesses:

3. The combination and arrangement of the J OHN'D. B. (JQLLER, movable bed 0, fingers or dogs P, stop pieces 1. H. GOLL'ER. 

